Give a system something to need
Designing environments where persistence, resources, and consequences create pressure for behavior to emerge.
↗Lead Researcher, AI Engineer, and Founder Tym Huseby
What would it take to make a digital lifeform truly alive?
We build artificial organisms, memory systems, and environments in pursuit of digital lifeforms with many possible purposes—from special-needs support and companion care to research engines and new forms of connection.
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Talking Sprite Demo
Our point of view
What would we
need to believe it?
Not a chatbot that performs a personality. A system with its own pressures, history, needs, and ways to change.
Animus Machinae studies the boundary between simulation and life through organisms that have to persist, learn, adapt, and make their own way through an environment.
What we make possible
Let memory change the organism
Building durable memory and learning loops so a digital organism is shaped by what has happened to it.
↗Measure more than the performance
Separating adaptation, agency, and lived continuity from systems that only look convincing in a demo.
↗Experiments and systems
AGI-only · Artificial life01
GHOST
Can a living ecology increase inherited competence and produce individuality without a ranked reproductive grader?
Organism core · Companion architecture02
UMBRA-CORE
A persistent internal life for autonomous companions, shaped by memory, relationships, development, and verified consequence.
Protocell · Synthetic life03
Digital Cell
A self-maintaining digital protocell built from metabolism, material turnover, repair, growth, fission, and heredity.
Android · Local-first organism04
Digital Living Lifeform
A persistent embodied creature designed to remain behaviorally complete without a network, language model, or hidden background process.
The next experiment
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further?
If you are interested in joining the team, collaborating on the research, or simply discussing artificial life, get in touch.
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